Turn your investment property into a profitable development

We help time-poor professionals unlock the full value of their property. From independent feasibility through to planning, construction, and project management. Expert guidance at every stage.

10+
Years experience
$50m+
Projects delivered
72hrs
Feasibility turnaround
Our Services

Bringing Your Project To Life

We model your property's full development potential, with consideration of zoning, yield, build costs, profit margins, and the optimal scheme, so you have clear numbers before spending a dollar on architects or planners.

If the numbers don't stack up, we'll tell you. That's what independent advice looks like.

  • Independent feasibility with no bias
  • Yield and scheme optimisation across all permitted uses
  • Initial read within 72 hours, full report within the week
  • Profit, build cost, risk, and equity uplift, all in one report
Kitchen interior of a completed townhouse

We assemble and coordinate your full consultant team, managing every moving part so you don't have to. Our focus is on securing the maximum permit your site allows, not just an approval.

Before lodgement, we review the design in collaboration with both a sales agent and a builder, ensuring what gets approved is optimised for market value and construction efficiency from day one.

  • Full consultant team coordinated, one point of contact for everything
  • Design reviewed by agent and builder before lodgement
  • Permit-maximising strategy aligned with council planning reforms
  • Council RFIs managed and responded to on your behalf
  • Endorsement of all documentation coordinated through to issue
Interior of a completed townhouse

Good construction drawings aren't just documentation. They're the blueprint for your project's profitability. We coordinate your full consultant team with a deliberate focus on construction efficiency, ensuring the structural, civil, hydraulic, and architectural design is resolved in the most cost-effective way before a shovel hits the site.

Poor drawing coordination is one of the biggest hidden costs in development. It creates builder confusion, inflated contingencies, and expensive variations on site. We eliminate that risk by producing a clean, fully coordinated drawing set that builders can price with confidence and build without ambiguity.

We then run a competitive tender across a minimum of four qualified builders, assess every submission on a true apples-for-apples basis, negotiate contract terms in your favour, and recommend the builder who delivers the best overall value, not just the lowest headline number.

  • Full construction drawing suite coordinated across all consultants
  • Minimum four builders tendered, competitive pricing guaranteed
  • Apples-for-apples tender assessment, removing builder ambiguity
  • Contract negotiated for favourable terms before you sign
  • Builder recommendation based on value, track record, and terms
Coordinated floor plan drawing set for a townhouse development

Once construction begins, we become your eyes and ears on site. As your single point of contact, we manage the builder, monitor progress claims, assess variations, coordinate authorities, and hold the project accountable to the contract, so you can stay focused on your profession while your development moves forward.

Construction is where budgets blow out and timelines slip, usually because no one is watching closely enough. We watch closely. Every progress claim is assessed before it's paid. Every variation is scrutinised before it's approved. Every milestone is tracked against programme.

As the project approaches completion, we work with you to execute your exit strategy, whether that's selling off the plan, listing at completion, holding for rental yield, or retaining for refinance. We coordinate the right agents, marketing, and timing to ensure your development delivers its full financial return.

  • Single point of contact from construction start to handover
  • Progress claims assessed and verified before payment is made
  • Variations scrutinised, protecting your budget at every stage
  • Quality, programme, and on-site delivery monitored throughout
  • Authority coordination: building surveyor, subdivision, titles
  • Exit strategy executed: sale, lease, refinance, or hold
  • Agent and marketing coordination for maximum sale outcome
  • Regular periodic updates, you stay informed without running the project
Completed townhouse development on Bell St
The Reality

Developing is harder than the property gurus let on.

You own a site that could be more than it is, you just don't have the time, the development expertise, or the modelling firepower to know what to do with it. That's the gap we close.

  • Builders won't tell you a site doesn't stack up, they get paid to build.
  • The same block can be a profitable scheme or a money-losing one depending on layout, yield and consultant choices. You need someone with no skin in the build to model it honestly.
  • Planning, drawings, tenders, contracts, construction management,18+ months of full-time project work for someone who already runs a practice or executive role.
  • One bad permit decision, one wrong builder, and the equity uplift quietly disappears.
Render of the three-townhouse Mount Waverley scheme from the central driveway
Mount Waverley · 2026

A $450K opportunity, modelled out of a $60K-a-year loss.

An investment block bleeding cash, remodelled into a three-townhouse scheme. We modelled every configuration that could fix it, one came out ahead, and the permit was approved first time. Now under construction.

Your Development Journey

The Aspirant Process.

1

Discovery call with Edward

Tell us about your property on a free 20-minute call with Edward. You'll get an honest view on whether development is worth pursuing, and an initial feasibility read back to you within 72 hours.

2

Feasibility & scheme

We model your property's full development potential, zoning, yield, build costs, and profit, then identify the optimal scheme for your goals. You receive a clear report you can act on, not a spreadsheet you have to interpret.

3

Planning permit secured

We assemble and coordinate your full consultant team, review the design with a sales agent and builder before lodgement, and manage the process through to the best possible permit your site allows.

4

Drawings, tender & contract

We coordinate your full construction drawing suite with a focus on engineering efficiency and cost, tender to a minimum of four qualified builders, assess every submission apples-for-apples, and negotiate the contract in your favour.

5

Project management & delivery

We manage construction from start to final handover, monitoring progress claims, variations, quality, and programme on your behalf. As completion approaches, we coordinate your exit strategy, whether sale, lease, or refinance, to maximise your return.

Street view render of a completed townhouse development
Featured Projects

What "feasibility to handover" looks like.

A built, handed-over development, and a feasibility scheme that turned a loss-making site into a profitable one.

Townhouse development Bell St
Bell St · 2024

Four townhouses, delivered to handover.

Feasibility through construction. Builder tender saved 11 weeks. Lock-up, subdivision, handover, all in.

4
Townhouses
13mo
Build
+$1.28M
Uplift
Read case study
Feasibility & scheme Mount Waverley
Mt Waverley · 2026

From loss-making site to permitted development.

Investment block losing $60K a year, remodelled into a three-townhouse scheme. Permit approved first time, $450K projected profit.

3
Townhouses
2026
Under construction
+$450K
Projected profit
Read case study
What clients say

Real outcomes.

Where We Work

Projects delivered across Melbourne & Adelaide.

Mount Waverley Bentleigh Brighton East Glen Iris Hawthorn Camberwell Malvern East Kew Mount Waverley Bentleigh Brighton East Glen Iris Hawthorn Camberwell Malvern East Kew
Norwood Unley Glenelg Burnside Prospect Walkerville Henley Beach North Adelaide Norwood Unley Glenelg Burnside Prospect Walkerville Henley Beach North Adelaide
2 states
Where we work
Melbourne (VIC) and Adelaide (SA), two capitals, one team.
Every site
Edward attends
Every site visited in person, no remote diagnoses, no junior visits.
Who We Are

Founded on expertise. Built on accountability.

Aspirant Projects was founded by Edward Bun, a residential developer with years of hands-on experience delivering townhouse and multi-residential projects across Melbourne, from site acquisition through to completion.

Edward built Aspirant because he saw the same problem repeatedly: property owners with valuable land and no trusted, independent expert in their corner. No one to tell them the honest numbers. No one accountable across the whole journey. Aspirant exists to fix that.

Every client benefits directly from Edward's experience, his professional network of planners, architects, engineers, and builders, and the standards he has set across feasibility, planning, and delivery. You get boutique, expert guidance with one accountable team behind it.

  • Founded and led by an experienced developer
  • Feasibility-first, we'll tell you not to proceed if the numbers don't work
  • Fixed fees at every stage, no builder commissions, no upsells
  • One accountable point of contact, first call to final handover
Edward BunFounder & Principal Advisor
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Edward Bun, founder of Aspirant Projects
Our Guarantee

The ‘Straight Numbers’ guarantee.

No one can honestly guarantee planning approval or profit, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we do guarantee: honest feasibility figures, fixed fees quoted upfront, and a straight assessment of whether your property stacks up before you spend a dollar on consultants.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Straight answers on how we work, what it costs and who you'll be dealing with. Anything missing, ask Edward direct.

No, Aspirant is an advisory, coordination and construction-management practice, not a builder. We model the feasibility, secure the planning permit, produce the construction documentation, tender the build to qualified builders and project-manage construction through to handover. You get an independent team whose only job is your outcome, not the build margin.

Every stage is a fixed fee, quoted upfront, no builder commissions, no surprises. The free consult is the right way to find out if your site is worth modelling in the first place; from there we'll quote the work in writing before anything starts.

No. Come in at any stage and stop at any stage. Plenty of clients start with just feasibility, get a clear read on the numbers, and decide from there. If you'd rather, we can hand you a shovel-ready, permit-approved project to take to market yourself.

Initial feasibility turnaround is around 72 hours, a first-pass read on yield, costs and likely return. The full feasibility report follows once we've modelled the optimal scheme in detail.

No, and be wary of anyone who does. Feasibility figures are indicative, every site gets its own model, and planning approval, construction costs and final profitability depend on factors outside our control. What we do guarantee is honest numbers and a team that will tell you not to proceed if it doesn't work.

Edward Bun, directly. He's a project manager and residential developer with years delivering townhouses, dual-occupancies and mixed-use projects across Melbourne, no juniors, no template reports, one point of contact from the first call to final handover.

Get In Touch

Let's find out what your block is worth.

Edward Bun
Edward Bun
Founder, Aspirant Projects

Tell me about your site. I'll give you a straight read on whether there's a project worth pursuing, and what it'd take. No hard sell, no template report. If it doesn't stack up, I'll tell you.